STANDARD OIL CO. v. SO. PACIFIC CO.

No. 197.

268 U.S. 146 (1925)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY AND JAMES C. DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 20, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John M. Woolsey and William H. McGrann for petitioner.

Mr. C.C. Burlingham, with whom Mr. Van Vechten Veeder and Mr. A. Howard Neely were on the briefs, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

August 19, 1918, the steamship Cushing, owned by the petitioner, Standard Oil Company, and the Proteus, owned by the respondent, Southern Pacific Company, and operated by the Director General of Railroads, collided. The Proteus and her cargo were lost. Petitioner and respondents filed their petitions for limitation of liability. R.S. §§ 4283-4285. Admiralty...

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